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Weyerhaeuser Co (WY): Today's Featured Real Estate Laggard

Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link.

Weyerhaeuser (
WY) pushed the Real Estate industry lower today making it today's featured Real Estate laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.6%. By the end of trading, Weyerhaeuser fell $0.48 (-1.6%) to $30.58 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2,045,446 shares of Weyerhaeuser exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3,812,700 shares. The stock ranged in price between $30.48-$31.04 after having opened the day at $30.94 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $31.06. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that declined today were:
Gaming and Leisure Properties (
GLPI), down 18.4%,
American Spectrum Realty (
AQQ), down 11.8%,
Impac Mortgage Holdings (
IMH), down 6.1% and
Gyrodyne Company of America (
GYRO), down 5.7%.

Weyerhaeuser Company, a forest products company, grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and manufactures forest products worldwide. It grows and harvests trees for use as lumber, other wood and building products, and pulp and paper. Weyerhaeuser has a market cap of $18.1 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 27.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 1.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Weyerhaeuser a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates
Weyerhaeuser as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.